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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – Miley Cyrus rode a wave at the Teen Choice Awards.
The teen queen sailed away with six surfboard-shaped trophies at Sunday’s ceremony. Cyrus won for comedy TV actress and comedy TV show for “Hannah Montana,” music/dance movie actress and hissy fit for the “Hannah Montana” movie, music single for “The Climb” […]

The US film director and writer, John Hughes, who created some of the most famous comedies of the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 59.

The director died after a heart attack in New York, his spokeswoman said.

Hughes was the director of such successful films as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

He was also a leading script writer, penning films such as Pretty in Pink and Home Alone.

Over the past decade, Hughes withdrew from Hollywood and became a farmer in the Midwestern state of Illinois.

Hughes had been in Manhattan on a family visit when he died.

American Idol judge Paula Abdul is quitting the TV singing contest after eight years.

Making the announcement on Twitter, the 47-year-old said: “With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return.”

She did not give any reasons for her decision which ends weeks of speculation about contract talks and her future on the show

American Idol host Ryan Seacrest said on his Twitter page that he was “shocked and saddened” by the news.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – British pop singer Robbie Williams will release his first album in three years this November, record company EMI said on Wednesday.

Williams, 35, who has sold 55 million albums worldwide, will release the album titled “Reality Killed the Video Star” globally on November 9. His first single “Bodies” will be released in October.

“My album’s a killer,” Williams wrote on his blog last month. “Old Robbie, New Robbie and a Robbie that neither of us have met … I really hope it’s as good as I think it is.”

Kim Kardashian may be single, but that doesn’t mean she’s rushing to replace her footballer ex-boyfriend, Reggie Bush.
“I definitely don’t think we’ll be seeing Kim with anyone anytime soon,” Caroline D’Amore, a close pal of the E! reality star, tells us. “Reggie was the major love of her life, and it’s not going to […]

NEW YORK (AFP) – US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are among the best-dressed people in the world, according to a list published Tuesday by glossy magazine Vanity Fair.

Obama, previously noted by fashion watchers as an unusually elegant dresser, joins Brad Pitt and James Bond actor Daniel Craig on a list of 10 men.

iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Aug. 3, 2009:
Singles:

“I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas
“Down,” Jay Sean
“Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon
“Good Girls Go Bad (feat. Leighton Meester),” Cobra Starship
“Fire Burning,” Sean Kingston
“You Belong With Me,” Taylor Swift
“Best I Ever Had,” Drake
“Boom Boom Pow,” Black Eyed Peas
“Remember Me (feat. Mary J. […]